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Publication details [#7146]
Lapaire, Jean-Remi. 2002. Imaginative grammar. In Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara and Kamila Turewicz. Cognitive Linguistics Today (Lodz Studies in Language). Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. pp. 623–642. 20 pp.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Abstract
The paper describes the approach to English grammar developed in Lapaire (2005). I have devised a number of teaching tools, including NarraGrams (fables, poems, stories that help conceptualize grammatical mechanisms), LogoGrams (metaphoric catch phrases that encapsulate the meaning and / or use of a construction) and KineGrams (short choreographed gesture performances, now recorded on DVD). The approach includes a DVD (Grammar in Motion) in which 50 grams and some 20 metalinguistic terms are explained, using gesture.
(Jean-Rémi Lapaire)